In the reading “The Evolution of Compassion”, Robert Wright says that “And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then , in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.” “So from a bi…[Read more]

Andrew’s picture depicts exactly what is stated in his thesis. For many people the terms “gender” and “sex” are interchangeable. Sex is biological and includes physical traits such as genitalia, sex chromosomes, and reproductive structures. However, gender is more complicated than that and cannot be defined so simply. Gender is how a person wa…[Read more]

The interview “A Journey of Pain and Beauty: On Becoming Transgender in India” adds to my understanding of one of our previous readings titled “Why I Must Come Out” by Geena Rocero. Geena Rocero also talked about how difficult it was for her to come out and share her story. She felt that “all of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion,…[Read more]

“All Made Up: Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender” discusses the many theories revolving around the subject of sex and gender. Different people have different views of how gender is perceived in the world. In Herculine Barbin’s memoirs written by Foucault, Barbin was forced by medical and legal authorities to adapt a…[Read more]

The thesis of Alice Dreger’s Ted Talk is that society has established an overly simplified and a narrow method of categorization in regards to sexual identification. Passage 6:09 gives us a better understanding o […]

One strategy I want to improve upon in my writing is “crossbreeding with something new”. Being able to improve upon this strategy will allow me to incorporate new ideas into my writing, thus producing new con […]